“Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and District Governor Adnan Husseini… explained during his meeting with Jorge Lobo, the Portuguese representative in Palestine, on Tuesday [July 22, 2014] at his office in the neighborhood of Al-Barid, that Israel considers itself above the law… He noted that the occupation authorities are pushing the region into an abyss, by coarsely desecrating the sites holy to Islam and Christianity, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque – completely ignoring the significance of this holy site for over a billion Muslims. Israel uses falsification and fabrication to distort historic and religious facts, with the aim of realizing its false claims regarding the application of a Jewish character [to Jerusalem] and the construction of the alleged Temple over the ruins of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”